Job Description

The Motion Business is a fast-growing part of Rockwell Automation that develops motion control products such as servo drives, servo motors, and independent cart systems for use in industrial applications. The most common market for these products are in factory automation applications such as packaging machinery, paper converting, printing, web handling, and automated assembly.

The Senior Software Test Engineer participates in the testing activities for motion control features in a PC-based software tool used for configuring automation controllers and attached devices. Work assignments include participation in requirements development, architectural design of automated test systems, test design, effort estimation, design, coding, and verification of automated test systems. This role requires strong communications skills and ability to work effectively in large project teams.

Position responsibilities:

• Designing, developing, executing and maintaining manual and automated tests

• Creating test plan, test cases and test reports.

• Making sure that team's automated and manual tests have appropriate coverage and traceability to requirements.

• Supporting team's CI/CD environment and approach by maintaining tests up to date, executing them frequently and reporting results to agreed stakeholders

• Analyzing functional, system requirements and design for testability and risk assessment.

• Guiding less experienced team members supporting them in executing testing tasks

• Monitoring and evaluating testing process adopted by the team and report any inefficiencies

• Facilitating effective communication both within local teams as well as with remote stakeholders

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Engineering

• Minimum 5 years of software testing experience including at least 2 year experience on automated testing or software development.

• Proven application of at least one programming language (C++ or Python preferred).

• Good organization and analytical skills with attention to details.

• Commitment to software quality.

• Team player with strong working ethics and positive attitude.

• English on at least B2 level

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with motion control systems and/or industrial automation products and environments

• Experience in collaborating with technical development teams in multiple global locations

• Experience with end to end testing involving user interfaces.

• Understanding software design principles and experience in code refactoring.

• Experience with GIT and Jenkins continuous integration environment

• Experience with test management tools (e.g. qTest)

• Experience mentoring less experienced testers

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